Daily Chess Improvement: Game Saving Tactic!

White to move. To comment, please either login or use quick registration with either your Facebook or Google account. We are trying to avoid spammers and trolls.

White to move. How should white proceed?

Comments (5)

Sort: Newest

No. 1-5

fajac

Sep 23, 2017

Bf7#

fajac

Sep 23, 2017

Rf5+ gxf5

dysmedia

Updated on Sep 24, 2017

Better:

Bd5 Rad8

Bc6 Rdf8?(... Re3+ 3. Be3)

Rxa7 Rd8?

Rb7

(White either gets a rook or promotes a pawn.)

Question regarding annotation: how do you indicate, as in 2 and 3, that all moves for black are equally useless? Do you just choose one of many useless moves, and put a question mark beside it, as I did here?